Interesting... so that's how you did 'damage control', as Lebell put it.

Yes and no, I think I asked him wtf happened during the TD.
I wasnt there so Im not judging.
The damage control was more of a 'look in time I can explain stuff, there's things you dunno'mysterious psychobabble.
Im too old and cynical to fall for crap like that.

It's almost bedtime for me so let me give you a heartfelt '**** you'for the following TMI part:

You mean when you decided to give me that HOURS long monologue in the middle of the night about how to live my life.

lolwut..kinda awkward but okay...but then this:

I was just lying there, scared to move a muscle. That **** was awkward as hell.

What the hell were you guys doing...
No wait..nevermind.
Im not judging, I just...

Second, lemme first repeat I'm a total noob just like you, but that one time that I leterally let you sit on me and do an Ezekiel choke. ****, you were pushing on my chin, dumbass. I tapped when I FINALLY felt a choke.

I assumed, when Hiro said you "don't tap" that he was talking about a joint lock. Why the **** would you insist someone to tap to a choke? If they're not tapping and they're not going out, you're doing it wrong!

Someone apparently thinks it's cheating not to take 3d6 damage when they yelled "Ezekiel! Ezekiel! Ezekiel!" and CLEARLY hit you with the beanbag.

Let me also say that all this hand-wringing over who is safe to train with is embarrassing. We had broken feet and cracked ribs happen at the Boston Mega, and I'm sure everyone would line up and fight the exact same matches again with no problem.

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Now darkness comes; you don't know if the whales are coming. - Royce Gracie

So, in short, all of the Eurobullies really want to get over this, right?

Good.

There is this misconception that I was terribly upset about this, whinequit and all. No, I am just busy. Even if I listen to, what, my prof's youtube lecture in the other window, I can't possibly spend 16 hours in a row arguing about random ****, or spend weeks obsessing. So, I quit, and have to accept that some nasty things are said that I won't be able to answer.

That said, of course, some of stuff I wrote here over the years was embellished, or quite simply not true. Now, how did this come?
Because, guess what, in 2007, when I registered, I had a different relationship with the community than I have now. Not that I intentionally trolled people, but you where the lot with the ear grind, and the parking lot fight. Difficult to take such a crowd fully seriously, at least in the beginning.
No excuses for that, but it's not like I had tried to intentionally delude people outside of a few very particular trolleries.
And frankly, as pitiful as it is, I am not much of a good liar, because I forget about the stuff I say. Like, at the EuroMega '11. Did I write that I was an ammy fighter?! No idea. But if I had been aware then, I would have cleared it up immediately. Can I take the old stuff back? No. But would I do it again? Unlikely. Anyway, I hope my positive contributions outweigh the negative ones in the end.

As to the TD, TS, and I can't be the one to break that to you, the thing that had me reconsider my personal involvement at the TD long BEFORE this, uuhm, extravaganza, was that you behaved like a moron the whole fucking weekend. On the mat, like somebody who didn't know gym etiquette. Outside of the mat, like a disturbed person.

- Now, before you go all butthurt about this, let the criticism sink in. What Lebell gratiously refers to as "politics" is that I have been telling people not to mind, because I didn't want to single you out over bullshit like that. Even when that maybe would have gotten me, what, some e-cred back. So, take this criticism from your peer; and let's talk about this in a different environment at some point.

That said, what's about this "keep up or shut up"-bullshit?
As I see it, we are pack, not some sanctimonious warrior cabal. As in, we hold together, and try to improve. But for that, and there it gets difficult, we need to end the infighting that has been the community's trademark ever since Cy-Gate.
Maybe some of you think we already are a hopeless case. I don't. That's why I am enduring all this ****, and taking the time. So, guys, why don't we try to "be good"?

Wow! This is great. You are so full of ****. How did those pink panties not sag on ya?